Use mathml in hugo-md format

[AlbertLei]

Background. I am using quarto to render some math-intensive pages in a hugo project. I prefer mathml for math rendering. It's much faster than webtex (which is recommended in the quarto webpage for hugo-md format). The math rendering of mathml also seems much nicer to me (I am using firefox).

I tried specifying html-math-method: mathml in the hugo-md format. But the generated md file still keeps the dollar-latex-dollar syntax, rather than mathml syntax. I am using quarto 1.2.335.

So, my question is, is it possible to support html-math-method: mathml in the hugo-md format? My (naive) guess is that may not be hard, since one can mix mathml (which is just HTML) and markdown in a hugo-legitimate md file.

Currently I am using the workaround by specifying format: html, theme: none and html-math-method: mathml. It works very good for me as (i) hugo allows raw html file and (ii) mathml is valid in the html output of quarto.

[cderv]

mathml is supported only for HTML outputs by Pandoc and hugo-md is based on a Markdown output. This means specifying mathml as a method won't do anything for markdown output.

This seems to be a feature request for Pandoc to support outputing some mathml math as HTML in some markdown output supporting HTML.

I am not sure we have an easy way to do this in place of Pandoc's internal for math support.

[AlbertLei]

Thanks for letting me know the limitation of pandoc.
I am fine with the format: html workaround.